Purple Flame Heaven Capital is one of the oldest cities in Purple Flame Heaven. Though called a city, it is actually a ruin—a ruin so vast it is unimaginable.
Ziyan Heaven is located at the core of Ziyan Heaven, but unlike Minghao Heaven, Ziyan Heaven is divided into regions, with many areas not connected to each other. In fact, some places require detours from other heavens or through places like the Underworld or Demon Realm to reach here.
So here, no one can travel all over the entire Purple Flame Heaven. Some relatively closed areas hide countless monsters. They rarely come out, but once they do, they stir up a storm.
As Guo Ran's flying boat slowly approached Purple Flame Heavenly Capital, all that met his eyes was desolation, and a tragic and heroic aura rushed toward him.
Unconsciously, the blood flowing inside Long Chen quickened, and his hand trembled slightly. Long Chen was startled, not knowing what was happening.
"You truly have battle blood flowing within you. Even the call from billions of years ago can resonate with your vital energy." Xia Guhong looked at Long Chen and couldn't help but exclaim.
"Big brother, you mean..." Long Chen was taken aback.
Xia Guhong nodded and said, "That's right. During the Great Ancient War, this was the core of the battlefield. The number of casualties in that battle is incalculable."
Every inch of land here was once soaked in blood, every strand of air was stained with endless resentment. Here, ancient ancient trolls were buried, and peerless heroes fell.
However, as time passes and stars shift, the Heavenly Dao erases countless traces, and it seems that the great war ultimately could only be engraved on historical monuments.
As time passed, people's memories of those years gradually faded. Whether it was unbearable to look back, afraid to face it, or fearing history would never repeat, they chose to forget. Xia
Guhong looked at the desolate world before him and let out a long sigh, filled with extremely complex emotions.
Long Chen knew that Xia Guhong had experienced far more than he did. He stood at heights he could never reach. Seeing this world, he felt deeply moved, while Long Chen felt nothing but overwhelming fighting spirit.
In the air, he sensed fear, anger, unwillingness, and nostalgia—these were the spiritual will left behind by those human powerhouses before death, enduring for billions of years, and Long Chen could still feel them.
Not only Long Chen, but even Xia Chen and Guo Ran were affected by the aura here. Their gazes turned cold and sharp, murderous intent surging.
They had followed Long Chen for so many years, fighting bloody battles all the way and were especially sensitive to this aura. It was as if they could see countless humans fighting bloodily and slaughtering all kinds of fierce demons, wishing they could follow the river of time and space upstream to join that great battle.
As the flying boat slowly moved forward, the scene ahead grew increasingly astonishing. From afar, one could see a spatial black hole, like the mouth of a monster, devouring the world.
Around the black hole, space kept shattering, and a terrifying blade of great space could be seen spinning. In the endless darkness, a dreadful sound echoed, like the roar of a divine beast or the wailing of a vengeful ghost.
"The battlefield of the Ancient Desolate Era has already passed for billions of years. Can't heaven and earth be restored?" Guo Ran saw the black hole and couldn't help but tremble as he spoke.
With their cultivation, if they unleashed their full power, they could break through the spatial barrier, but the barrier would heal quickly.
It's like cutting through water with a knife—it causes some damage when it enters the water, but over time, everything returns to its original state.
And the traces of battle left from the Ancient Desolate era have been passed down to this day. Just how terrifying must the person who strike be really?
"The Ancient Desolate Era is rumored to be the strongest era of the human race. The powerful figures of that era could wield mountains and seas, shatter stars and shatter moons—beyond our control." Xia Guhong looked at the black hole, his voice tinged with nostalgia.
"Isn't that right? Isn't the wheel of history supposed to keep moving forward? After billions of years of accumulation, the human race has continuously innovated, creating new techniques and combat techniques atop giants. Now, the human race is flourishing in diversity, and should be even better than before! Guo Ran couldn't help but say.
Although the ancients were strong, logically, after countless generations of effort, the human race should have grown stronger and stronger.
After all, humans are not beasts; they only have bloodline inheritance. Humans not only have bloodline inheritance but also historical inheritance. Human techniques can be passed down through writing secret manuals.
As the saying goes, 'Many hands make light work,' and everyone is striving to innovate. Today, the human race is flourishing, giving rise to countless new techniques. However, judging by Xia Guhong's tone, it seems the human race is in decline and constantly regressing, which is hard to accept.
Xia Guhong shook his head and said, "In the Ancient Desolate Era, humans survived in the cracks, which was extremely difficult.
Later, a peerless warrior was born among the human race, who created his own peerless divine skill, leading the human race to conquer the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, subduing demons and monsters, and for the first time, standing atop all races.
Long Chen, you often say that humans are the spirits of the myriad Daos, favored by the Heavenly Dao, but in reality, before that person appeared, the human race was not truly the spirit of the Myriad Daos, nor would they receive the favor of the Heavenly Dao. Humans are merely slaves and scholars of various races.
It was that peerless powerhouse, who killed so much the heavens wept blood, the heavens bowed their heads, and the Heavenly Dao could only bow at his feet, forcing him to respect the human race.
From then on, the human race truly rose to prominence. With the protection of the Heavenly Dao, they began to gain enlightenment, gained wisdom, and started creating cultivation methods and combat techniques.
Guo Ran: I know you have an astonishing talent for forging artifacts, but don't be dissatisfied. Living in that era, humans were the chosen ones, baptized by the divine light of wisdom and nurtured by the laws of myriad paths. Their intelligence far surpassed that of humans today. "
When they heard that they had been baptized by the divine light of wisdom and nurtured by the laws of myriad paths, Long Chen and the other two were shaken in their hearts. The state Xia Guhong described was actually the state of being baptized by the Seven-Treasure Glazed Tree?
Guo Ran immediately fell silent. Bathed in the divine light of the Seven Treasure Glazed Trees, he felt his thoughts surge like a spring, endless inspiration spilling like a sudden enlightenment, and the problems that had troubled him became much easier.
If people of that era were truly as Xia Guhong said, bathed in the divine light of wisdom and nurtured by the laws of myriad paths, it would be beyond what they can reach today.
They only received a little baptism from the Seven Treasures Glazed Tree and were amazed; they could not imagine how clever people of that era must have been.
"Big brother, who exactly is that peerless powerhouse you mentioned?" Long Chen couldn't help but ask.
Xia Guhong smiled at Long Chen but didn't answer, but his smile already gave Long Chen an answer.
Long Chen's heart raced wildly. Just as he had expected, that person must be the Lord of the Nine Stars, the man who made the Nine Heavens bow their heads.
"So, does that mean the Nine-Star Overlord Body Technique was created before the Heavenly Dao recognized the human race?" Thinking about this question, Long Chen was even more shocked. The Lord of the Nine Stars had opened a new precedent, so by changing the cultivation path of the Nine Star Overlord Body Technique, was he going to create a new precedent?
"Boom!"
Suddenly, a deafening explosion echoed from afar, and a violent aura spread out.
"Someone's fighting, go check it out!"
Guo Ran suddenly shouted excitedly, piloting the flying boat straight ahead.